Iron County register., 1887-05-19

ANDREW MALoNEY, employed on the
new courthouse at Pittsburgh, Pa, care
lessly stepped from stone elevator, on
the 18th, when 155 feet from the ground.
| When picked up there was scarcely a
| whole bone in his body. He was conscious,
| however, and sent a message to his wife
and family Shortly after removal to the
| hospital he died.
| RoYALTY received some hard shots in
| the British House of Commons on the 18th
| in the discussion of motion to grant the
Duke of Connaught furlough to attend
| the Queens jubilee.
| The statue of James A. Garfield was
unveiled, with appropriate ceremonies, at
Washington on the 18th by the Society of
the Army of the Cumberland.
| THE value of exports of breadstuffs for
April past aggregated sl2 ,439, against
| S11, ,959, 94S in April, 1886.
| TwESTY-oNE lodges of the Washington
Masons. about twelve hundred In num-
| Der, left the city on the 18th by SPECIAL
trains over the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
for Baltimore, where they participated IN
| the celebration of the centennial ami
versary of the establishment of the Grand
Lodge of MARYLAND.
| Mrs. U. S. GRANT has been seriously i'll
the past week with diphtheria.
| ENGLAND has appropriated another por-
| ton of Southwest Africa as British Pos
| session.
JIM JONES, a negro, murderer, was exc
cuted at Texarkana, Tex, on the 18th.
| Mr.. PowDERLY has issued a circular
calling on the Knights of Labor to cele-
brate the Fourth of July.
THE United States has entered the 'In-
ternational Union for the Protection of In
dustrlal Property"
The London Times has renewed the pub
| ~ o,,ti ola IsD oil md
Crime" and is making fresh ''revela-
| tons
| ALBERT TURNER, one of Jennie Bow
mans murderers at Louisville, KY, plead
! ed guilty on the 18th, and was sentenced
| to be hanged July l.
RUSSIA is treating the British repre-
sentatives on the Afghan question with
much courtesy, but remains unyielding in
her boundary attitude.
! AN encounter with pistol and hatchet
took place in Senoia, Ga, on the 18th, be-
tween T. N. Burdette and L. W. Couch.
The latter was instantly killed and the
! former will die.
| THE Pope will try once more to "disci-
| pline'' DIR. McGlynn, and if he does not
| obey the summons to appear at Rome
within forty days the rebellious priest is
| to be accommodated.
THE Washington Post says the hotel
keepers are beginning to fear that the
National drill is not going to be great
success, as very few persons up to the
present time have applied for apart
| ments.
| The "Lohengrin" affair in Paris has
made irrevocable the German Govern
| ment's decision not to take part in the
Paris Exposition. Some German traders,
| however, are to be represented in the ex-
| hibition.
THERE were five earthquake shocks at
| Nogales. Ariz,, during the 18th. The
| heaviest was at $50 a. m, and caused
| many clocks in the town to stop.
| THE President has appointed Byron L.
Smith, of Chicago, to be a com missioner
| to examine a portion of the Northern
| Pacific railroad in the place of j. W. Doan,
! declined.
THERE was slight shock of earthquake
| at Somerville and slight rum bling at
| Charleston, S. c., on the night of the 18th.
The vibration was not greater than would
| be caused by a loaded wagon passin g
| along the street.
| THE New York health authorities were
| notified on the 18th that nineteen persons
had been poisoned by impure milk which
was received from Brewster's Station,
| n. Y. Only one of the parties-a woman
was seriously affected.
| A CYCLONE swept over Gage County,
Neb., on the 13th striking the town of
Blue Springs. All telegraph wires were
down and only meager particulars are at
hand Several houses were leveled and
Il church unroofed. One man, at least,
was fatally injured, and woman was
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
AT the meeting of the trustees of the
Illinois Soldiers Orphans Home at Bloom
| ington, on the 18th, DR.. II. G. Denote,
president Of Chaddock College, GU incy
| was elected to the superintendency of the
Soldiers Orphans Home at Normal, and
| his wife, Mrs. Sarah Denote, to the
office of matron. They thus fill the posi-
tion formerly held by Mrs. V. &. Ohr, re-
| moved.
| JOSEPH LoDEL, one of the most promi-
| nent Bohemian citizens of the West, died at
! his residence in Cedar Rapids, Ia, ON the
18th, aged seventy years. He graduated
from the University of Prague, and tax
ing an active part against Austria in the
| 1913 war, came to America and located,
being obliged to flee. He practiced law
in Cedar Rapids thirty years, until i'll
| health caused his re tlrement